CORPUS CHRISTI - The Texas A&M - Corpus Christi track and
field program has released its 2011 Indoor and Outdoor schedules.
This upcoming season the Islanders will face a wide variety of
competition in both portions of their schedules.
"Our schedule is a good mix of low key and highly competitive
meets. It's good to have meets where you can develop as an athlete
and work on the technical aspects of your events," said head coach
Randy Bungard. "We also have meets in which we'll run against the
best teams in the country.
"The combination of both types of meets will allow us to
continue to build our program into a conference contender and allow
our best student-athletes to run against the top athletes in the
country."
Texas A&M - Corpus Christi will open the indoor season
Friday, Jan. 14 at the McNeese Cowboy Indoor Meet in Lake Charles,
La. It will close up the month with the Texas Tech Invite in
Lubbock on Jan. 21-22.
In February, the Islanders will compete at the Houston Open
(Feb. 5), V.T. Elite Open (Feb. 4-5) in Blacksburg, Va., Air Force
Invitational (Feb. 11-12) in Colorado Springs, Colo., and finish
with the Southland Conference Indoor Championships (Feb. 25-26) in
Norman, Okla.
March 11-12 will be the NCAA Indoor Championships which will be
held in College Station.
The outdoor season opens up March 5 in Laredo with the Border
Olympics, which will be followed up with the Cactus Cup (Mar. 19)
in Kingsville and the Victor Lopez Classic (Mar. 25-26) at Rice
University.
April will be a busy month for the men's and women's teams with
the Tigers Relays (Apr. 2) and, the annual Texas Relays (Apr. 7-9)
in Austin. The weekend of the 16th the team will send
some athletes to San Marcos for the Texas State Invitational, the
Tom Jones Invitational in Gainesville, Fla and Mt. SAC Relays in
Walnut, Calif. (Apr. 14-16).
To finish up the month, Texas A&M - Corpus Christi competes
at the J. Fred Duckett Rice Twilight (Apr. 23) followed up with a
return to San Marcos for the Bobcat Invitational (Apr. 30).
May opens up with the Trinity Last Chance (May 6-7) which is the
last opportunity to qualify for the Southland Conference Outdoor
Championships (May 13-15) in Natchitoches, La.
This season the NCAA West Preliminary Rounds will be held in
Eugene, Ore. (May 27-28) at the University of Oregon. The NCAA
Outdoor Championships move to Des Moines, Iowa (June 8-11) and will
be hosted by Drake University.
